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Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)

CHAPTER II
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This lasted to the end of the lady's days (1783 or 1784).
There is probably nothing very profitable to be said about all this domestic disorder.

We do not know enough of the circumstances to be sure of allotting censure in exact and rightful measure.

We have to remember that such irregularities were in the manners of the time.

To connect them by way of effect with the new opinions in religion, would be as impertinent as to trace the immoralities of Dubois or Lewis the Fifteenth or the Cardinal de Rohan to the old opinions..


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